{"id":483026,"date":"2026-02-18T12:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/483026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:54:10","slug":"usa-ready-for-tough-test-against-sweden-in-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/483026\/","title":{"rendered":"USA ready for &#8216;tough test&#8217; against Sweden in quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILAN &#8212; The game should showcase the highest level of hockey thus far at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026, the first Olympics with NHL players in 12 years.<\/p>\n<p>Two lineups full of NHL stars will compete in a best-on-best, single-elimination scenario when Team USA plays Team Sweden in the quarterfinals of the men&#8217;s hockey tournament at Santagiulia Arena on Wednesday (3:10 p.m. ET; Peacock, NBC, ICI Tele, CBC Gem [JIP], SN, TSN [JIP]).<\/p>\n<p>The winner advances to the semifinals Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously, they&#8217;ve got a lot of balance,&#8221; U.S. coach Mike Sullivan said of the Swedes. &#8220;They&#8217;ve got a lot of goal scorers. They&#8217;re a good team. They&#8217;re a complete team. They play on both sides of the puck. We know it&#8217;s going to be a big challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/connor-hellebuyck-8476945\" title=\"Connor Hellebuyck\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Hellebuyck<\/a> will start in goal. He&#8217;s 2-0-0-0 with a 1.00 goals-against average and .952 save percentage in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the forward lines and defense pairs at practice Tuesday and the morning skate Wednesday, there will be no lineup changes from Team USA&#8217;s last game, a 5-1 win against Team Germany on Sunday in the preliminary round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN &#8212; The game should showcase the highest level of hockey thus far at the Olympic Winter Games&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-483026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}